'Tis The Season

At school, we are in full preparation mode for the Christmas celebration party next Tuesday. Each grade is fervently practicing their Christmas carols in English. I am quite impressed with how well all of them are coming along. For a few of the songs they know more versus then I do and the English in many is really quite difficult. My favorite moment though was helping the three year olds sing their song, which goes like this: "I am a star"; "On top of the tree" (at which point they take their hands into the shape of a triangle and put in on top of their heads);"I am a star"; "Twinkling Bright" (at which point they make the hands on top of their heads into spirit fingers); "I want to wish you a Merry Christmas!" Then they go to sleep for a few seconds, wake up, then sing it again. At the end, they all shout "Feliz Navidad!" It is so cute! Many of them do not know Spanish well, and at one point on of the children shouted "Feliz Cumpleanos!" (Happy Birthday!). haha. It truly is the little moments in life that make it wonderful!